View clinical trials related to Spinal Cord Injuries.
Filter by:The main objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a new treatment regime that uses electrical stimulation for the improvement of hand function in persons with spinal cord injuries (SCI). This treatment has been shown to be useful for stroke patients, and our preliminary work indicates that this may also be the case with SCI patients. Our approach to functional electrical stimulation (FES) represents a departure from the established FES approaches, which involve developing assistive devices for permanent, everyday use. Instead, we use FES as a therapeutic intervention that will help individuals with quadriplegia recover voluntary grasping function. Investigators believe that subjects who undergo FES therapy should be able to grasp objects without stimulation once the treatment program is completed.
Active elbow extension has significant functional benefits for individuals with tetraplegia. The proposed work will provide information to assess how effectively people are using their elbow extension tendon transfers, and whether one surgery works more effectively than the other. This study will provide recommendations to clinicians about the possibility of improving function after surgery using rehab techniques.
The purpose of this study is to develop and field-test new tools for diagnosis and hazard assessment of cardiometabolic risk (CMR) in people with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) and to advance the evidence base with much needed information on CMR and cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden in people with SCI. These data can be used to develop screening guidelines for early identification and prevention of CMR in SCI, as well as targeted approaches to primary disease management.
The specific aims of this study are: 1) to assess the test-retest reliability of a modification of an existing wheelchair propulsion assessment and 2) validate the modification against traditional measures of physical strength, power, and endurance in a group of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI).
This hypothesis-driven study will investigate effects of physical activity with or without a nutrient supplement known to increase body lean mass in adults with chronic paraplegia who have clusters of obesity and obesity-related secondary complications.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety of the long-term use of pregabalin at doses up to 600 mg/day in patients with central neuropathic pain (post spinal cord injury pain, post stroke pain, and multiple sclerosis pain).
This study is designed to assess the impact of exercise and supplementation on measures of fitness, function, and cardiovascular disease risk factors/modifiers in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). The primary purpose of this study is to improve fitness and function, reduce cardiovascular disease risks, and enhance oxidation of dietary and body fats in persons with chronic tetraplegia through acute exercise, exercise conditioning, and dietary supplementation. This study will test the hypothesis that timing of supplementation with regards to exercise bout ('intervention/placebo') affects fitness, function, lipid profiles, lipid oxidation, and inflammatory markers after acute exercise and chronic conditioning.
The overall study objectives are to examine whether: 1. Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) having elevated body mass are at greater cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk for fasting and postprandial lipidemia, glycemia, and vascular inflammation than persons with SCI having 'normal' body mass, and 2. An inexpensive, low-risk, widely-available pharmacotherapy safely reduces CVD risks associated with fasting and postprandial lipidemia, glycemia, and vascular inflammation.
The purpose of this study is to use ultrasound to analyze the effects of a bout of circuit training on the upper extremity of persons with spinal cord injury and able-bodied controls.
The projected data related to the burden of spinal cord injuries induced limb paralysis in India is quite alarming. This is attributed to the rapid industrialization and economical development in the country. Increase in vehicular traffic has caused numerous road traffic accidents. Rapid increase in populations, development in the computer technology and real estate business lead to construction of huge buildings which indirectly adds to the injuries due to fall. Spinal cord injuries could not be treated adequately with the prevailing treatment modalities. In view of this, there is definitely an urgent need for finding different methods of treatment for these patients who cannot undergo established modalities of treatment or these have been tried unsuccessfully. Since a large number of these patients will loose their productive life and at the prime of their lives, one such alternate therapy, which seems to offer some promise, is "stem cell" therapy, which has been well studied and published in prestigious journals. In our present study, we want to evaluate the safety and efficacy of autologous bone marrow derived stem cells surgically transplanted directly into the lesion site with glial scar resection for 8 indian patients of chronic spinal cord injury and intra-thecal injection for 4 indian patients of acute and subacute injury.